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Assuming you still have an internet connection... why not? :) Well, guess TCP/IP is out, but maybe TV and radio broadcasts would still function.
Light (read: any electromagnetic wave) cannot escape a black hole beyond the event horizon. Therefore this wouldn't work.
>there is no paradox, because no one person ever sees your clone. Anne only sees one copy of you. You only see one copy of you. You and Anne can never compare notes. Can't you? Why can't Anne "gather up your ashes" and send them into the black hole, where you can inspect them? Shouldn't that go against the "no cloning theorem"?
Given the initial split in realities, Anne would create a new parallel universe when she placed your ashes in the black hole, one in which they exist outside the black hole and in a parallel universe where they exist inside the black hole, but this is not the same parallel universe you are experiencing, but a parallel parallel universe. Essentially, 2 instances of the black hole.
"In a big enough black hole, you could live out the rest of your life pretty normally" Free falling in your ship and suit waiting for you to be crushed to death... pretty normally
I recently saw the movie Interstellar starring Matthew McConaughey. It answers the question of what happens if you fall into a blackhole and it involves a bookcase, I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it. Edit: Seems the people downvoting me are a bit sensitive and don't have a sense of humour. Sorry to anyone who was somehow offended.
Very interesting if you want some more background is the book 'the science of Interstellar'.
BONUS EDIT: here's a Greg Egan short story about transhumans diving into a black hole and trying to do physics on the way down: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PLANCK/Complete/Pla...
also here's his page explaining the physics in the story: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PLANCK/Planck.html#...
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Very interesting if you want some more background is the book 'the science of Interstellar'.
interstellar was more a pile of nonsense than Science.
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Given the initial split in realities, Anne would create a new parallel universe when she placed your ashes in the black hole, one in which they exist outside the black hole and in a parallel universe where they exist inside the black hole, but this is not the same parallel universe you are experiencing, but a parallel parallel universe. Essentially, 2 instances of the black hole.
The theory very explicitly does not posit a "split in realities" or "parallel universes" or anything of the sort. It says there is quantum information both inside the black hole and outside it, and this is ok because they're supposedly causally disconnected from one another.
From the 3rd paragraph. However, yes the alternate universe comes into existence when you reach the singularity.
Still, if you can exist both inside and outside, then your ashes can exist in both places alongside living you without causing a paradox because you simply will not exist in the same space as you ashes that will arrive very much later anyway as time slows at the edge of the black hole. You are more likely, having read the article, to have a post-life crises knowing that outside the black hole you are dead.
Articles like these are great reminders to question everything you think you know.
Yes there are things we don't know, but we should try to come up with precise questions, not to ponder about the meaning of black holes in philosophical way.
Start small, figure things out.
Articles like these are great reminders to question everything you think you know.
I find this "new age" mentality annoying. Yes there are things we don't know, but we should try to come up with precise questions, not to ponder about the meaning of black holes in philosophical way. Start small, figure things out.
It's more of a reminder to think that even when we start to understand some incredible things, there's still a TON out there we DON'T know.
I think that's where the cool revelations come in, when you start to understand how much out there you don't know much about. That's where the wonder starts (which tends to bring up some of those specific questions).